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It’s the National Sex Ed Week of Action! To celebrate, Planned Parenthood of NYC is giving away a package of safe-sex goodies to the Feministing reader who emails me** with the correct answers to all five of the following sex-ed related questions. Pencils ready? And, go:

1. Name one of the two most common STIs (sexually transmitted infections) in the United States.
2. What metal is a contraceptive IUD made out of?
3. By law there is only one acceptable sexual position in Washington, D.C. What is it?
4. “Let’s Talk About Sex” was a hit from which Salt-n-Pepa album?
5. In 1998, which state created a law banning the sale of sex toys, ruling that the constitution “doesn’t include a right to sexual privacy”?

Good luck!

**UPDATE: Congrats to Sarah, who was the first to respond correctly! The answers are below the jump…

These days everyone is talking about how colleges and universities can cut down on rape on their campuses. But likely the single most important way to end violence on campus is to start talking about it long before — in middle and high school.

Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) and Alma Adams (D-N.C.) have introduced the Teach Safe Relationships Act, which amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and would require schools to teach students about safe relationships as part of sex education.

These days everyone is talking about how colleges and universities can cut down on rape on their campuses. But likely the single most important way to end violence on campus is to start talking about it long ...

For this week’s Feministing Five, we spoke with Dr. Kali Nicole Gross, who is an associate professor, associate chair of the African and African Diaspora Studies Department, and core faculty in Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Along with her scholarly work on black women’s history with the US criminal justice system, Dr. Gross has written powerful pieces on police violence against black women for online outlets such as the Huffington Post, Jet, and The Root. Her brilliant work has moved our team here at Feministing and we are so grateful that she shared more of her thoughts ...

For this week’s Feministing Five, we spoke with Dr. Kali Nicole Gross, who is an associate professor, associate chair of the African and African Diaspora Studies Department, and core faculty in Women’s & Gender Studies at the University ...

This past Thursday, the Ford Foundation, the United States’ second largest philanthropy, announced an overhaul of its grantmaking programs to focus on inequality and to double the amount of general support grants it distributes.

I know this is not as intriguing as debating whether or not Rachel Dolezal is actively participating in blackface but here’s the thing: this matters to our movements. Though many of us work to ensure that marginalized voices are present in virtually every single space — from magazine covers, to presidential campaigns, to the conference rooms of tech companies — we have been remarkably slow at addressing some important questions: Who is funding us and how? ...

Ed. note: This post was originally published on the Community site.

This past Thursday, the Ford Foundation, the United States’ second largest philanthropy, announced an overhaul of its grantmaking programs to focus on inequality and to double the ...